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Related: About this forumWhy the Christian right are preaching that empathy is a sin
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https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/sin-empathy-christian-trump-vance-b2812330.html
Empathy is usually regarded as a virtue, a key to human decency and kindness. And yet, with increasing momentum, voices on the Christian right are preaching that it has become a vice.
For them, empathy is a cudgel for the left: It can manipulate caring people into accepting all manner of sins according to a conservative Christian perspective, including abortion access, LGBTQ+ rights, illegal immigration and certain views on social and racial justice.
Empathy becomes toxic when it encourages you to affirm sin, validate lies or support destructive policies, said Allie Beth Stuckey, author of Toxic Empathy: How Progressives Exploit Christian Compassion.
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Thats the kind of crap were up against- compassion for others is a sin. Sick f**ers!

BoRaGard
(7,321 posts)Great Freaking Deception, my ass.
repubes have completely
surrendered to the darkside - Supreme Unholy Suckers (r).
Why do republicons hate Christ?
3catwoman3
(27,611 posts)Mahatma Gandhi was right.
patphil
(8,212 posts)I don't think Jesus put a caveat on compassion.
Only those without sin are worthy of assistance?
We know what Jesus said about that.
Empathy isn't a sin, it's a virtue.
PATRICK
(12,297 posts)Explained in more than one way by Jesus of Nazareth, namely against religious clerical critics is more an observation than a revelation. You not only judge yourself but render yourself incapable of being part of the Good. Calling good evil and evil good.
Simple, cutting your own spiritual throat, enforced by practice and active opposition. This of course is worse than Jesus' contemporaries who accepted all institutional "necessary" evils to put him down. The words are clear as a sword- as are the beatitudes in their various forms. When rage and "righteousness must finally rebound on the Biblically damned.
Bernardo de La Paz
(57,992 posts)Matthew 25
44 They also will answer, Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick or in prison, and did not help you?
45 He will reply, Truly I tell you, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.
bucolic_frolic
(52,215 posts)CurtEastPoint
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mwmisses4289
(2,080 posts)If Christ came back, she would run away screaming about demons and devils.
Redleg
(6,584 posts)and then throw empathy out with the bathwater. Empathy is more about trying to understand the thoughts, feelings, behaviors, and situations of the person. It may also involve an offer of help, but not necessarily. It does not include an offer of help that would support the other person's dysfunctional behaviors or do long-term harm to that person's well-being. "I understand that you are hooked on narcotics and that you can't afford narcotics, so I would like to help you pay for them" would be an example to avoid.
WestMichRad
(2,573 posts)They clearly dont understand what empathy is, or are trying to redefine the word to demonize it as woke.
Redleg
(6,584 posts)And he announced his intentions on twitter before doing so.
Duppers
(28,413 posts)On them.